But after Baker recanted about being beaten he didn’t know what he could do if she denied being abused.

On June 28, 1998, Baker accompanied Jaurique on a trip to Fort Morgan where both of them had family. Jaurique had met Baker in Fort Morgan when she was only 16 years old, 30 years earlier.

When they returned to Morrison Baker spent one night at Jaurique’s house. She told him that she was afraid of Nene-Perez and was concerned what he might do when she returned to her apartment.

“She must have expected that he would do something to her,” Jaurique said.

Nene-Perez was very jealous, she said.

Jaurique loaned Baker his maroon 1995 Geo Prism, he said.

On June 30, Denver police received two calls from people saying that a woman had been murdered, according to an article by a former Rocky Mountain News reporter.

The first caller, a woman, told police that a man was driving to Mexico in a red car with a woman in the trunk.

She said the woman was named Bonny and that her boyfriend killed her. The woman gave police a license plate number. It was Jaurique’s car.

The second caller, a man, told police that a man had strangled his girlfriend and stuffed her body into his car, according to the Rocky Mountain News article.

When Baker disappeared, so did the car that Jaurique had loaned to her, Jaurique said.

In the days after he learned of his ex-wife’s disappearance, Jaurique
spoke with a neighbor of Baker’s, who said the day Baker and Nene-Perez had disappeared the couple had argued.

That same night Nene-Perez came to the man’s house and asked for a shovel. The neighbor didn’t have a shovel only a pick axe. Nene-Perez borrowed the pick axe but never returned, Jaurique said.

Another witness would tell authorities that he had seen Nene-Perez and Baker at a bar the same night and that he saw Nene-Perez beat Baker.

Jaurique said he believes his ex-wife was murdered in Nene-Perez’s car and than transported to the back seat of Jaurique’s car.

Days after the July 4th discovery of blood in Nene-Perez’s car Denver police got a call from Globe, Az. police. Globe is 60 miles east of Phoenix.

On July 1, 1998, the day after the calls from witnesses about a woman’s murder, a maroon car crashed in Globe and witnesses saw a man matching Nene-Perez’s description running from the scene, Jaurique said. The car had blood inside.

“It was enough blood that they thought it was a homicide,” Jaurique said.

But there was no body in the car.

“I think she was buried somewhere in Arizona,” Jaurique said.

By the time Denver detectives had gotten the call from Globe police, about five days after the crash, Nene-Perez had easily made it across the Mexican border, Jaurique said.

Jaurique called police every day asking for updates in their investigation.

Denver police told Jaurique that they believe Nene-Perez was living in Mexico.

“I’m hoping he will come back to the U.S. and that police will find him,” Jaurique said. “I still suffer post-traumatic stress over it.”

What bothers him is that police know where Nene-Perez is living but nothing is done about it.

Jaurique said he heard that Nene-Perez was living in a city in North Central Mexico called Guanajuato.

He’s enjoyed 16 years of freedom.

“They knew where he was living in Mexico,” Nene-Perez said. “I don’t know why they didn’t work with the Mexican police to arrest him. It’s gone for years without getting anywhere.”

He said he worries that police disregard his concerns because of his status even though he has always loved her.

“I’m just the ex-husband,” he said.

Anyone with information that could help solve the case is asked to contact Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-2000.